ポップショウ、フランクとプシュポウのリュートの弦 [Pupshaw, Frank, and Pushpaw: The Lute String]

Jim Woodring’s Pupshaw, Frank, and Pushpaw: The Lute String, a single-issue comic from Presspop Inc. released in 2005 and still ongoing, is a wordless, surreal journey through the artist’s signature Unifactor universe. Woodring, both writer and artist, uses his distinctive, hallucinatory linework to follow the antics of his beloved characters in a silent, dreamlike narrative centered on a mystical lute string. This series matters as a concentrated, standalone dose of Woodring’s singular vision—a pure, unbroken stream of his whimsical and uncanny storytelling.